Ansible is a community project sponsored by Red Hat, it’s an open-source project that helps automate IT tasks. In simple terms, if I want to define Ansible then it would be like Ansible is a simple automation tool which helps us to automate most IT tasks. Why Ansible? / Advantages of Ansible It is free to use by everyone. It is lightweight, and no constraints regarding the operating system or underlying hardware are present. It is secure due to its agentless capabilities and